Most kids wanted to learn to play guitar or saxophone. If I Stay, page 22
The audition was grueling. I had to play five pieces: a Shostakovich concerto, two Bach suites, all Tchaikovsky’s Pezzo capriccioso, which
was next to impossible, and a movement from Ennio Morricone’s The Mission, a fun but risky choice because Yo Yo Ma had covered this and
everyone would compare. If I Stay, page 50 And it wasn’t like I was a dork, either. I have friends and a bestfriend to
sit with at lunch. I have other good friends at the music conservatory camp. I went to in the summer. People liked me well enough, but they
also didn’t really know me. I was quiet in class. I didn’t raise my hands a lot or sass the teachers. If I Stay, page 34
3.3.2 Adam Wilde
Adam is Mia’s boyfriend. He is very handsome and loves music. He plays guitar and sings for his band, “Shooting Star.”
Still, his attention baffled me. It wasn’t that Adam was such a popular guy. He wasn’t a jock or a most-likely-to-succeed sort. But he was cool.
Cool in that he played in a band with people who went to the college in town. Cool in that he has his own rockery style, procured from thrift
stores and garage sales, not from Urban Outfitters knockoffs. Cool in that he seemed totally happy to sit in the lunchroom absorbed in a book, not
just pretending to read because he didn’t have anywhere to sit or anyone to sit with. That wasn’t the case at all. He has a small group of friends
and a large group of admirers If I Stay, page 33 The club where Shooting Star was playing was packed. Everyone was in
costume, most of the girls in the kinds of racy getups---cleaveage-baring Frenchs maids. When Adam finished his set, I was as painting and
sweaty as he was. I didn’t go backstage to greet him before everyone else got to him. I waited for him to go to the floor of the club, to meet his
public like he did at the end of every show. If I Stay, page 97-98
3.3.3 Kim Schein
Kim is Mia’s bestfriend. Kim is sarcastic, and obedient to her emotional mother. Kim and Mia are very alike and perceived as “dark and studious.”
Kim is so the opposite of that, so droll and funny in a low key way that she is always having to say “just kidding” to people who don’t get
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sarcastic sense of humor, that I cannot imagine her ever being like her mother. Then again, I don’t have much basis for comparison. If I Stay,
page 64 Maybe it was because we were too alike. As soon as Kim showed up on
the scene, everyone assumed we would be the best friends just because we were both dark, quiet, studious, and at least outwardly, serious. If I
Stay, page 68
Peripheral Characters
There are three peripheral characters in “If I Stay” novel. They are Teddy Hall, Kat Hall, and Denny Hall.
3.3.4 Teddy Hall
Teddy is Mia’s little brother. Mia is extremely fond of Teddy, saying he is like her own kid. Teddy admires Mia and the two are very close. Throughout
the book, Mia worries the most about Teddy, as it is inclear at first to whether or not he is died alongside her parents in the accident.
Teddy’s face broke into a wide grin, showing off the gap of his missing front tooth. “That’s kind of what Mom said, but I just wanted to make
sure she wasn’t just telling me that so I wouldn’t bug her about the costume. You’re taking me trick-or-treating, right?” He looked at me
now. “Just like every year,” I answered. “How else am I gonna get candy?” “You’re coming, too?” he asked Adam. “I wouldn’t miss it.” If
I Stay, page 90 Teddy is never going to graduate from T-ball to baseball. He’s never
going to grow a mustache. Never going to get into a fistfight or shoot a deer or kiss a girl or have sex or falling love or get married or father his
own curly-haired child. I am only ten years older than him, but it’s like I have already had so much more life. It is unfair. If one of us should have
been left behind, if one of us should be given the opportunity for more life, it should be him. If I Stay, page 160
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3.3.5 Kat Hall
